In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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